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If blue berries and red grapes are a super food, then it could be said that the acai berry is a super, super food. Dr. Nicholas Perricone — in his book the Perricone promise — tells us that the antioxidant properties of the acai berry alone place it up there with the most beneficial foods known to man. When you combine these antioxidant properties with the other nutrition and goodness that the little berry gives us, then you’re onto a winner.

The effects of antioxidants on the body are well known and well documented: it is said that the French stay alive longer than the rest of us because they drink red wine which contains — you guessed it — lots of antioxidants. The good effects of amino acids on the body are not so well documented, however, and it often surprises people how much good the amino acids in acai berry can do for us.

Amino acids are great for metabolism, and this is one of the reasons why acai is so great for people on a diet.

Amino acids are also essential as the building blocks for protein, which is essentially a long string of amino acids joined together.

The acai berry is a super food on the strength of its antioxidant properties alone: when you bring the other benefits into the equation, it is easy to see why this is a super, super food.

I went to the Iron Cactus in Austin, Texas on the strength of recommendations from friends as to the quality of the roof bar. This tequila bar is renowned for its excellent ambiance and, above all, the massive range of tequilas on offer. Some say that this is the largest range of tequila available in one place in the US, and frankly I believe that assertion.

But this is a Mexican restaurant, not a rooftop bar, and the place serves some really excellent Mexican food, too. I hadn’t intended to try the Mexican food while I was there, but the sight and smell of it — along with the clearly impressed recipients of said food — made me throw caution to the wind and give it a shot. Really, I was glad that I did. As well as the perfect Margarita, this place does a sublime tortilla soup. The other dishes were pretty impressive, too.

The Iron Cactus in Austin, Texas is well worth a visit whether you’re there to check out the tequila or the food. This is more than just a Mexican restaurant; more than a rooftop bar with ambiance, too. This is the complete package. I have returned many times and I can only recommend that you give it a shot.

Phuket is a fantastic place for a holiday. Located in a warm and tropical part of Southeast Asia, Phuket is consistently one of the most popular places for a vacation in the region. Before booking any holiday to Phuket, you’re going to need to scope out the best Phuket hotels to book.

When it comes to choosing the the best of the Phuket hotels on offer, the first consideration you should always have is how much money you are going to spend. You need to have an idea of your budget in your mind so that you can narrow down your choice of accommodation without any fuss.

It’s also essential that you put a bit of time into researching where you are going to stay. Although Phuket may seem like a small island, the difference between each of the different beach destinations is astounding. Some have full-on nightlife while others are straight up chilled.

If you want to stay in party town, then booking a Phuket hotel in the beach resort of Patong would be a good way to go. This resort has so many nightclubs and restaurants. It’s a lively place and won’t be to everyone’s liking, but if you’re keen to be in the thick of the action, Patong is the place to stay.

Not everyone wants to be up drinking and dancing all night, however, so that’s why a lot of people make the choice to stay in some of the island’s quieter beach spots. You might want to give some thought to staying somewhere such as Mai Khao or Nai Yang. These are great little destinations that are a little more exclusive and off the tourist trail.

Where your Phuket hotel ends up being, you’ll more than likely want to book it online. Thanks to the wonders of modern technology there are now a vast array of online booking agents that can help in this regard. Be sure to shop around, however, and also make a point to read the customer reviews.

When Apple announced that they were going to release the iPhone, people were waiting for this to happen with real excitement. On the day the iPhone sales were officially started, all Apple-addicts head to the stores to wait up in lines for hours. Gadget lovers would do anything to get a new toy. People had to wake up at 5am to get themselves that iPhone, to be sur that they will be able to get one. And it did not took them long to get used to this new gadget.

Then, the deja vu situation: Apple releases the first hardware update – iPhone 3G. Nothing much changed, the same lines and excitement. This time everything was heated up by the news that this iPhone would be able to run some of the third party applications and games. A touch driven interface of iPhone 3G is very popular with players, it allows them to tap the screen for game applications, zoom in on cards, and a number of other features. Gambling games are extremely liked nowadays and iPhone Casino applications are one of the most downloadable ones.

iPhone Casino games that can be played on iPhone now include poker, blackjack, and some other games. Most of iPhone Casino games are played like any other online gambling games, yet are based on the applications of iPhone. The doors of the mobile gambling sector were opened and iPhone took the lead. iPhone Casino games have fabulous graphics, they are sharp and innovative.

This is a warning going out to anyone who is thinking of trying Acai for the first time with the help of one of the many, many examples of Acai berry free trial offer. Don’t do it! The Acai berry free trial offer is a thoroughbred scam. The Department of Trade thinks so, the media thinks so, almost all of the internet agrees, and I’m telling you now. For good measure, I will say it again: the Acai berry free trial offer is a scam!

The way this scam works is by subscribing you (look in the small print, it is there) up to receiving a month’s supply of substandard and criminally over priced Acai. If you were going to buy this same volume of Acai from a reputable supplier then you’d be looking to pay around a third of what this subscription ‘offer’ is costing. If that isn’t enough to keep you away, then consider the fact that the quality of the Acai provided under this subscription is vastly inferior to the ‘real’ stuff.

Many people want to get healthy with Acai, and the idea is admirable. Don’t try and do it using one the Acai berry free trial offers: just buy your Acai from somewhere reputable.

I find it easy to remember the first day that I decided to try Salvia. I was sat at the computer, researching the natural, legal drug, its effects and its long- and short-term effects. There was no doubt that I was very interested from the very beginning. The more I read the more I was convinced that I would have to give Sally D a try.

I was, in myself, a very confused individual. I wanted to understand more about myself spiritually, and I wanted to understand the world around me in a truly spiritual sense. I was looking for some kind of inner knowledge, some kind of insight into the things that had be confusing me for years. As I read more about Salvia I knew that this “Sage of Diviners” was the way forward for me. This was my path out of this spiritual wilderness.

That very day I sent off for a bag of Salvia and sat with anticipation. Eventually, the bag arrived, and I got to it.

Salvia was all I was hoping for and then some. This little plant has a lot to answer for! Fortunately it does have all the answers. Today I am a much more spiritually satisfied person.

Books on the subject of Salvia are few and far between. Fortunately there some pretty good ones out there.

One of the first books I picked up (and I got this straight from Amazon) is the Salvia Divinorum Grower’s Guide. The book — well, actually, it’s more of a pamphlet — is published by Spectral Mindustries and contains comprehensive, complete growing guides for everyone’s favourite visionary herb.

The book starts from the beginning, telling you how to obtain Salvia cuttings that you can start to grow the plant from. There are also source lists for seeds.

Personally I think the Salvia available over the Internet is pretty cheap as it is. I’m short on spare time, too, so I’m not going to attempt to actually grow the stuff. I did find the book an interesting read, though, and if you are intending to go down the self-grow route then this is the only way to do it.

Why not take one step back towards the natural and start growing your own produce. Vegetable patches are all the rage: why not your own Sally D stock? I’m not sure on the rules when it comes to this, but why not think about selling some on while it’s still legal?

One of the questions I get asked on a regular basis is “what is the best type of pipe to use when smoking Salvia”. As with so many things relating to the wierd and wacky world of Salvia Divinorum, there is no right answer. The answer will depend on you, the amount of you buy when you buy Salvia, and the type of Salvia you purchase when you buy Salvia.

If you do not have a pipe available, then I strongly suggest that you buy one — any type at all, to start with — when you buy Salvia. Because of its nature you can’t really smoke Salvia without a pipe. And while you can make a pipe, it won’t ever be as good as one that you can buy from the very same place that you buy Salvia. If you’re an experienced drug smoker than you will probably be okay in making an informed decision about what you use; other than that, you need to follow my advice and buy one pretty much from the start.

Using the pipe is a story for another article, but suffice to say you need to get the Salvia really, really hot. A good lighter is going to be on your list of necessary purchases, too.

You may not know this, but what is commonly known as an Acai Berry, really isn’t a berry, but as a matter of fact, it’s a round drupe that is only around 1 inch wide and looks like a grape. This fruit is found in abundances of 700 to 900 individual drupes. A tree, on average, produces two crops every year. Inside this “berry” is a huge pit, or seed, that takes up to 80% of the entire mass of the acai fruit. Acai has surged in popularity because people have shown that acai helps weight loss.

The Caboclo people, of the Brazilian rainforest, are the ones that harvest the acai berry, and use this fruit as 42% of their nutrition.

Once the acai berry is harvested, it begins to degrade at a very fast rate, which makes it challenging to export to a surrounding area. For this reason, acai berries are made into several different products like preserves, juice, Acai Pills
, supplements and pulp. Acai supplements claim to be an incredible aid when trying to diet and acai promotes weight loss in the right diet. Even without the weight loss benefit of acai it is a valuable addition to your diet.

It has been claimed that a acai supplement can retain the majority of the properties and nutrients that start off in its raw form, and because of this, a supplement of an acai berry is a convenient and effects way of getting all of its goodness into your daily routine and helping acai help with weight loss.

I’m a fairly regular Salvia user so it takes quite an amazing trip to be able to shock me. Fortunately I am able to report that I had just this trip yesterday. It was my most memorable trip for one main reason – the absolutely psychedelic hallucinations that I was subjected to. Amazing! Long after the trip had finished I was still sat back in awe. I don’t know what’s going on in my head by but my brain is more than happy to play some pretty funky visual tunes to me. Perhaps I’ve got problems.

So anyway. I’ll quickly try to describe what I saw during my brief Salvia trip: bear in mind that this was a hallucination from my warped brain so it’s not going to be easy for you to imagine the horrors in there!

First I grew an extra head. I was disappointed to note that I couldn’t move my ‘extra’ head independently of the other and that it just seemed to be a perfect mirror image of my ‘first’ head. Oh well.

Next, the fairy appeared. I’ll call her Sally (after Sally D – my favorite name for Salvia Divinorum). She was dressed in a divine green outfit (complete with matching handbag!) and she danced around the room gaily and apparently to music (though I could hear nothing but a strange buzzing sound).

How’s that for a memorable Salvia trip!?